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Pollution Crisis — Everyone in Beijing is a Vacuum Cleaner
So a 500 reading of particulate pollution was considered “crazy bad” and “beyond index”? Try 993. That is a reading recorded at a monitoring station in central Beijing on the evening of January 12,...
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Spotted on China’s Web: Gallows Humor as Pollution Chokes Beijing
“Sorry, the headlines have been obscured by a giant haze; please click your mouse to clear it up.” If only cleaning up Beijing were as easy as following the above circled instructions on Sohu, a...
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Chinese Web Users Outraged After Days of Official Silence Follow Toxic River...
(genesisgraphics/iStock Photo) This article also appears on The Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. The river had a charm that its name lacks. “Zhuo Zhang River,” people call it in Chinese,...
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Why Has Chinese Media Coverage of Beijing’s Smog Been So Unflinching?
A setting sun pierces a smoggy sky in Dewai, Beijing. (kptice/Flickr) For the past five days, the air in Beijing has been a toxic, murky haze, but the media discussion around this sensitive topic has...
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Hard Labor Lessons From China’s First South American Mine
(Joao-Schmidt/Flickr) Marcona is a small town located on the south-west shore of Peru. There sits the only operating iron mine in Peru, and one of China’s earliest overseas mining projects. Around 20...
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Chinese Web Erupts With Widespread Calls for Change as Beijing Endures...
Beijing on January 19, with an Air Quality Index reading of 415. (©A/Flickr) This article also appears on ChinaFile, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. Beijingers are choking on their air — again. Just...
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Where Does Beijing’s Pollution Come From?
In January alone, a stifling and noxious haze twice enveloped the Chinese capital of Beijing, pushing air quality indexes literally off the charts and inciting widespread outrage both on-line and off....
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Plans for Nu River Dam a Setback for Chinese Environmental Transparency
The Nu River Valley. The name literally translates as “angry river.” (International Rivers/Flickr) The phrase “Ecological Civilization,” meant to describe a balance between economic development and...
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In Chinese Capital, New Year’s Tradition and Pollution Concerns Collide With...
Two men in Henan province dart away after lighting firecrackers. (Joshua Drew Vaughn/Flickr) Among all the ancient traditions that Chinese people observe during the lunar New Year, setting off...
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Chinese Activist Web Users Take Aim at Water Pollution, and Censors Strike Back
An earlier image of red water pollution in Lukang river. (Changhua Coast Conservation Action/Flickr Smog isn’t the only kind of pollution making headlines in China. Environmental activist Deng Fei...
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Interactive Maps of China’s Most–and Least–Polluted Places
Nearly five weeks ago, Beijing experienced its worst day of air quality on record: Levels of PM2.5 — small particulates that can cause lung, cardiovascular and respiratory disease — soared to more than...
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Chinese State Media Shares Powerful Map of ‘Cancer Villages’ Creeping Inland
This map recently appeared in the Global Times’ Weibo feed, and has been shared over 700 times since. (Via Weibo) This article also appears on ChinaFile, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. It appears that...
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Chinese Peasants to Local EPA: Drink This Nasty Water
(Via Bigstockphoto) The move is bold, inspired, and desperate. According to photos posted by a local journalist named He Guangwei (@何光伟) on Sina Weibo, China’s main micro-blogging platform, peasants...
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China’s Organic Food Cooperatives Must Overcome Trust Deficit
(Via Bigstockphoto) Until recently, Chen Tao (@陈涛哥在成都) worked at Alibaba, a Chinese Internet company, as an in-house censor deleting inappropriate postings. Now, he drives six hours every weekend from...
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The Long Battle Over China’s ‘White Pollution’
Styrofoam portage in Shanghai. (sansumbrella/Flickr) In the past weeks, Chinese citizens have learnt that the styrofoam boxes from which they eat their lunches will soon be legal. On February 16, the...
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Can Green and Red Coexist? How Tibet’s Environmental Challenges Have Become...
(via Bigstockphoto) “Tibet is still a very sensitive topic, even if your story is about the environment and not politics,” said an editor, who prefers to remain unnamed, of the environmental section of...
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Despite Risks, Chinese ‘Go West’— To Ghana’s Gold Mines
The entrance to a gold mine in Ghana (via Bigstockphoto) In March 2013, Xi Jinping visited three African countries – Tanzania, South Africa, and Republic of the Congo – during his first trip abroad as...
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NIMBY Protest in Pearl River Delta — Will Government Relent, Again?
[Update: On July 13, the local government announced that the uranium processing plant project will not proceed without public support.] Residents of Jiangmen, a medium-size city near Guangzhou, took to...
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Experts, Activists Call Proposed Amendment to China’s Environment Law...
(via Flickr/@A China) One new provision in the second draft of China’s Amendment of Environmental Law has caught the public’s attention. According to the draft, an organization with deep government...
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Views from the Factory: What Do Chinese Manufacturers Really Think About...
(Via Flickr/二泉印月) When I visited Mr. Liang’s LED factory in Zhejiang, I saw a building with so many machines that it made my head whirl. I asked Mr. Liang about how he thought his factory was doing...
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